Instead of keeping the infiltrator under wraps, they unceremoniously dumped Miss O'Connor off the train at Parkersburg, W.Va., to whoops of joy from reporters who had been attracted by Mr. Gold's cries of outrage.
The sound of a flogging floated out from the guardroom, the crack of the bone-tipped flagellum mingling with the whoops of soldiers as they roughed up a prisoner, taunting him as king, slapping him about.
The somnolent day is interrupted only by the shrieks of parrots, unidentifiable whoops and calls from the bushes, and the chatter of monkeys in the trees. Until 1987, the Yanomamis' only contact with whites was the occasional missionary.
His models came onstage draped in transparent chiffon boudoir robes, which they peeled off to the whoops of photographers to reveal Mae West pastel satin and silk long-line corsets.